It’s already been nearly two years since UFC bantamweight Ashlee Evans-Smith last stepped into the cage. From the sound of things, it seems likely that fans won’t see her back in the Octagon any time in the immediate future, either. That’s following a press release from the UFC’s drug testing agency, USADA, that ‘Rebel Girl’ has accepted a 14-month suspension from competition.
Evans-Smith tested positive for the anabolic androgenic agent dehydroepiandrosterone, more commonly known as DHEA, in a pair of out of competition urine samples collected on January 3rd and January 27th of this year. Notably, however, USADA noted that the fighter had actually declared her use of DHEA on her doping control forms for both tests, noting that she had been prescribed the medication by her physician.